Rakesh Singh @Murari Singh @ Rakesh Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50779 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-203 Year-2019 Thana- BANMANKHI District- Purnia ====================================================== Rakesh Singh @Murari Singh @ Rakesh Kumar Singh S/o Bijay Narayan Singh Resident of Mohalla- Near Dr Kokha Babu Kayastha Tola, ward no.- 28,P.S.- Saharsa ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ajit Ranjan Kumar , Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 17-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State .
2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under section 420, 467, 468 , 471 and 120 ( B ) of IPC .
3 . As per the prosecution case , informant namely , Md. Azad alleged that on 05.08.2019, co-accused persons hired vehicle of informant and thereafter, informant sent his vehicle with driver. In the mid-way accused persons deceived the driver and took his vehicle and fled away Co-accused person disclosed the name of this petitioner as one of their associates.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50779 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 2/2 petitioner is not named in the F.I.R. . The name of the petitioner transpired during course of investigation in the confessional statement of co-accused persons. No vehicle has been recovered from the conscious possession of this petitioner. 5 . Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer for bail and submitted that from bare perusal of impugned order, it is apparent that the present F.I.R. was instituted in the year 2019 and petitioner has moved before this Court for anticipatory bail after lapse of more than 6 years for which there is no plausible explanation .
6. Considering the nature of accusation , delay in moving the anticipatory bail before this Hon'ble Court i. e ,. after lapse of more than 6 years for which there is no plausible explanation and circumstances of the case , prayer for pre-arrest bail of the petitioner is rejected.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Koushik/- U T